OK SR16

Proclaims April 12, 2017, as Rural Healthcare Day at the Oklahoma State Capitol.

Commends Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences' Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) for its collaborative model of medical education and care management in rural and underserved communities.

Project ECHO uses hub-and-spoke knowledge-sharing networks with multi-point videoconferencing to provide front-line clinicians access to specialty care expertise for managing patients with complex conditions.

Addresses Oklahoma's rural healthcare shortage: 74 of 77 counties are federally designated primary care shortage areas, with 58.6 percent of Oklahomans living in these areas and 55 percent of rural primary care physicians being age 55 or older.

Directs distribution of the resolution to OSU President Burns Hargis, Dr. Kayse Shrum (President of OSU Center for Health Sciences and Dean of College of Osteopathic Medicine), and Jerry Hudson (Chairman of OSU Medical Authority).